Just a quick one here. I have written some recent posts on my “Tree of Life” blog that may be of interest to some of the readers here. Here are the links: More on ‘phylogenomics’ – as in functional prediction w/ phylogeny Playing around with CloVR – cloud computing bioinformatics system I think …
Another article about Jessica Green and the work at the Sloan-funded BioBE Center in Oregon. Bonus points for the picture of plush microbes.
When I walk around UC Davis campus or visit areas near hospitals I am always dismayed by the number of people wearing their scrubs when they go out to lunch, seminars, or just walk around. I have always wondered whether those scrubs harbor anything nasty. Well, a new study in the American Journal of Infection Control …
Cross posting this from my Tree of Life blog: Well I am very excited about this article in the Boston Globe today: Ecosystem, sweet ecosystem – The Boston Globe. By Courtney Humphries the article discusses the Sloan Foundation program in the “Indoor Environment” that is focusing on microbial ecology of the built environment. I am, well, really into …
Are you a building scientist curious to learn more about molecular techniques for studying microbes? Are you a microbial ecologist hoping to get a bit of background on ribosomal RNA surveys? Then check our our new and improved “Simple Guides”. These are the start of what we hope will be a larger collection of documents …
As we’ve posted in the past, Mendeley is a great community resource and one that we’re using to create a reference collection of papers relating to the microbiology of the built environment. One of the really useful things about a reference manager like Mendeley is the ability to have tags associated with articles such as …
This post is about Microbiology of the Built Environment Mendeley group … Social networking and bibliographies may not seem like they go together well. But actually, they do. In the last few years there has been a movement to “socialize” bibliographies and reference collections. There are many many many systems for doing this, some better than …
For those interested in microbiology of the built environment you might want to consider going to Healthy Buildings 2012 July 8 – 12, 2012 in Brisbane. There will be a few sessions there with a microbial focus including, for example, “Infection spread: will breathing kill you?”
Recently I wrote here about a new report on a citizen microbiology effort focusing on microbes in water heaters: More on citizen microbiology project from @Penn_State & @NASA on thermophiles in water heaters via @scicheer @Sci4Cits Well, a new paper in PLoS One (PLoS ONE: Aquarium Nitrification Revisited: Thaumarchaeota Are the Dominant Ammonia Oxidizers in Freshwater …
I love citizen science. And I dream of doing citizen microbiology. Thus I love the project going on at Penn. St. on getting people to sample microbes in hot water heaters (posted a mini note about it a while ago). There is a good article about this project on the Science For Citizens blog here: …